Burrell's sac fly pulls Giants to game of first

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ATLANTA(AP) -- All Pat Burrell wanted to do was get the ball in
the air. He succeeded.

A fitting finish for the Giants, who didn't have a hit in their
tying or winning rallies Friday night.

Burrell had a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the 11th
inning Friday night, lifting San Francisco to a 3-2 victory over
the Atlanta Braves.

The Giants moved within a game of NL West leader San Diego,
which lost 2-1 to Arizona. The Braves lead over Philadelphia
fell to one in the NL East. The Phillies beat the New York Mets
7-5.

The Giants scored the tying run in the ninth without a hit and
the go-ahead run in the 11th when Atlanta reliever Peter Moylan
(3-2) walked the bases loaded ahead of Burrell's fly ball.

"With a sinker ball, sidearmer like that (Moylan), I was just
trying to get something elevated, just get something in the
outfield," Burrell said. "I know with my speed, or lack thereof,
anything on the ground might be a double play."

Aubrey Huff opened the 11th with a walk and moved to second when
Buster Posey walked. Juan Uribe hit into a forceout, with Huff
reaching third. After two balls to Pablo Sandoval, he was
intentionally walked. That loaded the bases for Burrell, whose
fly to left easily scored Huff.

"It wasn't pretty. We'll take it. We didn't do much offensively
and feel fortunate," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "We
didn't do much offensively."

The Giants got only four hits, but it turned out they didn't
need any more.

Javier Lopez (3-2) picked up the win with a scoreless 10th and
Brian Wilson got his 32nd save in 35 attempts with a hitless
11th.

"It got a little crazy in the 11th. We took advantage and got
that sacrifice fly," Wilson said. "It was time (for me) to come
in. No messing around. It was time to get the game over."

The Giants tied it at 2 in the ninth without hit as the Braves
made two errors.

Huff was hit by a pitch leading off the inning against Atlanta
closer Billy Wagner. Posey then reached on a throwing error by
shortstop Alex Gonzalez before Uribe flied to right, Huff
advancing to third.

Sandoval then reached when third baseman Chipper Jones fumbled
his grounder, allowing Huff to score the tying run. Posey took
third and Sandoval second. Burrell was walked intentionally to
load the bases but Travis Ishikawa ended the threat by hitting
into a double play.

"You got to play nine innings. We didn't," Atlanta's Chipper
Jones said. "We hit a guy and made two errors in the ninth. Walk
three in the 11th is a recipe for disaster."

Hanson allowed three hits and one run in seven innings. He
walked two and struck out three.

Jones hit his 10th home run in the sixth inning off Barry Zito
to break a 1-1 tie. Gonzalez hit his third home run as a Brave
and second in two games in the fifth. He hit a two-run shot
Thursday night in Atlanta's 3-2 win over San Francisco.

Jones had three of Atlanta's six hits. Burrell had two of San
Francisco's four hits. He went 2 for 2 with a pair of walks.

The Giants took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Andres
Torres led off the game with a single, stole second and third
and scored on a groundout by Huff.

Zito went seven innings and allowed four hits, two runs, walked
two and struck out 10.

NOTES: Gonzalez hit 17 home runs with Toronto before being
traded to the Braves on July 14. ... Zito had 10 strikeouts for
the third time this season and 15th in his career. ... In
addition to the rain delay, the game was pushed back 15 minutes
to a 7:50 p.m. start due to a ceremony to retire Tom Glavine's
No. 47 and didn't start until 9:20 p.m. ... The Braves said LHP
Mike Minor will be recalled from Triple-A Gwinnett to start at
Houston on Monday. Atlanta's No. 1 pick out of Vanderbilt in the
2009 draft was 4-1 with a 1.89 ERA at Gwinnett.